June 2008
The Ethical Slut - what do you think?
To prepare for a column in the upcoming Free Love issue of Time Out, I’ve ordered and read this book called The Ethical Slut.
I first heard of this book almost a year ago, and found the title - and concept behind it - intriguing (as would most people! They did a damn good job naming it.) The book begins:
If you ask about a man’s morals, you will probably hear about his honesty,...
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This is Warm It Up...
A fantastic NYT story about my former boss, Bonnie... →
“Ms. Fuller may be the most relentless editor in recent magazine history” (she’s edited YM, Cosmo, Glamour, US Weekly, and, of course, Star)
Despite that “she has served throughout her career as a chew toy for reporters covering the publishing business. Ms. Fuller is known for her hellacious hours, indifferent people skills and an approach to deadline matters that is more...
rrrgh! I'm not supposed to be tumblr-ing
sorry!
I’m really not “back” yet. I just couldn’t restrain myself lately. At heart, I’m a communicator. Sometimes a loud one. Sometimes verbose. Sometimes prolific. Sometimes loud, verbose and prolific (sigh).
Anyway, you’ll know when I’m back officially, and it’s going to be very, very soon - like within the next two weeks.
I can’t...
My Innovation Integration Timeline
The history of great innovations is always the same:
they are invented they are adopted by a few they are ridiculed they are adopted by a few more they are feared they are adopted by a few more they are discussed they are adopted by many they are praised they are absorbed into everyday life they are seen as so obvious it’s hard to imagine the world any other way they are written about in...
“The innovator’s curse is to be transitory.”
– “The meaning of Bill Gates,” in the Economist, June 28, 2008.
If you've never seen policy debate, you should... →
I’m spending my Friday night watching this documentary about the 2004 National Collegiate Debate Championship Tournament (NDT), which stars my darling, adorable high school boyfriend Dan - the single most intelligent human being I’ve met next to my father. (Dan’s featured in several sections, but go to 38:32 to see a great clip of him arguing.)
If you’re ever wondering...
Julia: What's your career path again?
Dan: Finish my masters, get a phd, become a professor, write a book.
Julia: I think you should do it the other way around.
Dan: Why?
Julia: Well ... because that's the way I would do it.
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Bounce That by Girl Talk
Perfect Friday night...
OMG OMG OMFG OMFFG(?) whatever. THIS IS WHAT... →
What's the truest cliched life lesson you know?
Mine is “Live in the Moment.” Horribly, horribly trite, except that, damnit if it isn’t totally accurate guide for happiness.
(Unless you happen to be getting a Brazilian bikini wax, in which case you should live in the moment after that’s done.)
Please email or reblog the most cliched life lesson you actually think is really good advice!
I’ll Never Forget You
I’ve been...
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This is an incredible new way to save (or send) a group of links to someone. MUCH better than copying and pasting an emailed list of links!!
Check it out :)
I'd go to a un-conference like this →
If you want people to be bored and frustrated, put them in a seat in a dark auditorium and force them to listen to five people drone on about how they are great, have it tough, how the hard problems can’t be solved but we have to solve them anyway, or god knows what they’re talking about sometimes.
People go to conferences to learn. One-directional communication (a guy at the...
Now THIS is a good commencement speech →
I’ve always mildly disliked Conan O’Brien, but after reading this, I have to admit it: damn. He’s good.
“At the end of it all, we’re just like, people. You know?”
– Emily Gould to me, today
If you could give your high school self advice...
I’ve been asked to speak at a Manhattan high school’s commencement next week. Given that I remember little except that my own high school’s commencement speaker (a board member) was mind-numbingly boring and woefully off topic (classmates remind me that she spoke about death. To high school grads. huh??), I’ve been reading various well-known speeches in the past few...
“He just doesn’t bullshit. And he doesn’t suffer bullshitters. Which...”
– me talking to Ronen about Marco
I'm on French TV! →
“When you’re doing the work you’re meant to do, it feels right and...”
– Oprah, in her commencement address to Stanford’s class of ‘08. Read the full transcript here.
WatchToday’s appearance of the CW’s new show, “NY Residential” with the charming, telegenic host Jeff Appel.
Thank you to the entire production team who filmed this! They were delightful.
Question: Female Commitment Phobes (for this...
I’ve had boyfriends my entire life, a parade of them since I was 14 - there was Peter, then Greg, then Dan, then Jeff and Mike and James and John and Alex - to name a few. Yeah, I’m a bit of a serial monogamist.
But for the past two years, ever since I broke up with Alex, I’ve been afraid of the term “boyfriend.” I’ve used it, sure, but sparingly … in...
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On Friday I found out that Meghan left my external hard drive on the subway by accident, with every video I’ve ever taken (as well as every photo before 2006) … and no back up. None. Everything gone … literally hundreds of videos and photos, every family event, every birthday, every lip dub I never posted, every sex tape (kidding) … gone. I was in shock the entire day -...
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If you only read three books this summer
Read these:
1. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations by Clay Shirky 2. Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0 by Sarah Lacy 3. Sperm are from Men, Eggs are from Women: The Real Reason Men & Women are Different by Joe Quirk
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Watchcourtesy of lindsaycampbell
This phenomenon isn’t a figment of Lindsay’s imagination or a fluke of her video footage; it has been documented in multiple studies on the dearth of women candidates for political office (we covered it in my Women in Politics class at Georgetown). Time and time again, women insist they are “unqualified,” despite possessing the same or greater...
